The centre was created by Dr. Mark Staniforth, an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the School of Geography and Environmental Science, and a team of researchers who have been working in Vietnam for the past few years, in order to increase awareness at local, provincial, national and international levels about the extent and nature of Vietnam’s underwater and maritime cultural heritage.

The centre website presents material about a range of maritime archaeology projects as well as maritime and underwater cultural heritage investigations that are being conducted in Vietnam today.